Blessing Quotes - Page 24

• Personally I am always looking for God to show me where He would like me to give or make a difference in someone else’s life. I wake up every day and ask God how He would like me to be a blessing to someone that day.

  Joyce Meyer

  Differences, Giving, Making A Difference

  "Joyce Meyer Calls for a Revolution: Our Interview". Interview with Holt Vaughn, www.vaughnstreet.com. March 3, 2010.

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• I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Want, Life Is, Moments

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• It's fun that I get to live out my dream every single day. It's a blessing. I can't lose sight of that and I've just got to keep pushing.

  Kevin Durant

  Dream, Fun, Sight

  "Kevin Durant wins first career NBA MVP Award". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing. It's something I would be incredibly honored to be a part of.

  Common

  Thinking, Would Be, Oscars

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When people come to me, they come usually for spiritual blessings, they come for the heart to be opened, because if it's not, we're not going to be able to channel our way through the course, and I think that most people know that there is that understanding that something has to open within us before we begin to resolve our problems, and so it is at all levels that they come.

  Maya Tiwari

  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Give as much as you can at every possible opportunity. If you can't afford to give money, give your time. If you can't afford the time, give your heart. Blessings come back to you in unpredictable ways.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Heart, Opportunity

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• To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

  Frances Wright

  Freedom, Giving, Liberty

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.518

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• Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Men, Should Have

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• Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Marriage, Two

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• When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wisdom, Trying, Chickens

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• The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Country, Hard Work, Play

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Opportunity, Doors, Complaining

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• ...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hero, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

  Laurence Sterne

  Doors, Law, Punishment

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.513

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• Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign powers, the present may be hailed as the epoch in our history the most favorable for the settlement of those principles in our domestic policy which shall be best calculated to give stability to our Republic and secure the blessings of freedom to our citizens.

  Andrew Jackson

  Giving, Principles, Citizens

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.289

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• And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone;
  In fact each child should try and have some parents of its own.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Children, Father, Giving

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• Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sympathy, Philosophy, Responsibility

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.105, UPNE

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• this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making,
  sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,
  this blessing love gives again into our arms.

  Galway Kinnell

  Children, Memories, Giving

  "After Making LoveWe Hear Footsteps" l. 21 (1980)

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• The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

  Hannah Arendt

  Life, Found

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• Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

  Samuel Richardson

  Happiness, Years, People

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• A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

  John Ray

  Mother, Children, May

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.117

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• I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Artist, Years, Trouble

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• Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure.

  David Hume

  Running, Blood, Liberty

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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• Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better . . . if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

  Virginia Satir

  Giving, Support, Parent

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• You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.

  Paul Schrader

  God, Thinking, Want

  "Fictional character: Jesus". "The Last Temptation of Christ", 1988.

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